EDUCATION

Turnbull v Catholics (The Australian) May 8 – (Opinion: Jennifer Oriel) The PM’s Gonski school reforms could further
disenfranchise religious schools that serve the working poor.

Catholic schools warn principals about
Turnbull government’s funding estimator tool(Sydney Morning Herald) May 12 - Catholic education bodies have slammed federal Education Minister
Simon Birmingham for sending letters to principals with funding estimates that
contained numerical errors, and have joined the NSW government in telling the
heads of schools not to rely on the Turnbull government’s school funding
estimator tool.

Indon Islamists to target ethnic Chinese (The Australian) May 12 - The leader of a powerful Indonesian Islamist organisation that led the
push to jail Jakarta’s Christian governor has laid out plans for a new,
racially charged campaign targeting economic inequality and foreign investment.

Bomb kills 25 as it hits Pakistan convoy (news.com.au) May 13 - A bomb has exploded next to a convoy of the deputy chairman of the
Pakistan Senate in the violence-plagued province of Baluchistan, killing at
least 25 people, officials say.

US-backed Kurds stalk Raqqa (The Australian) May 13 - A Kurdish-led military force backed by Washington is closing in on
Islamic State’s stronghold of Raqqa.

Deradicalising Indonesian terrorists (The Saturday Paper) May 13 – (Opinion: Martin Goettske) Amir Abdillah turns his head away. He doesn’t
want to look at the photograph of himself.